Rain

1924

Arthur Dove

Artist, American, 1880 - 1946

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    twigs and rubber cement on metal and glass

  • Credit Line

    Avalon Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 49.5 x 39.7 cm (19 1/2 x 15 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1997.1.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Purchased 1925 by Georgia O'Keeffe [1887-1986], Abiquiú, New Mexico;[1] her estate; sold 21 January 1997 through (Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri) to NGA.
[1] One annotated copy of the catalogue for the 1925 exhibition that Alfred Stieglitz mounted at Anderson Galleries in New York, in which Rain was first displayed, indicates a sale price for the sculpture; another annotated catalogue lists the work as "sold" (both catalogues are in the archives of the Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation, Abiquiu, New Mexico; copies in NGA curatorial files). Other sources for the 1925 date are: a letter of 25 October 1965 from O'Keeffe to Dorothy Rylander Johnson, saying "I bought Rain when it was first shown." (quoted in Dorothy Rylander Johnson, "Arthur Dove: the Years of Collage," M.A. Thesis, University of Maryland, College Park, 1967: 35-36, note 57); Hunter Drohojowska-Philip, Full Bloom: The Art and Life of Georgia O'Keeffe, New York and London, 2004: 254; Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries, Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Boston, New York, and London, 2000: 315. However, in a letter of 7 December 1996, John Van Doren (the dealer who handled the sale of Rain to NGA) says "this is a work which Dove gave to Georgia O'Keeffe and which remained in her collection until the end of her life" (in NGA curatorial files).

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1925

  • Alfred Stieglitz Presents Seven Americans, The Anderson Galleries, New York, 1925, no. 17.

1926

  • [Dove exhibition], Intimate Gallery, New York, 1926.

1933

  • [private group exhibition], An American Place, New York, 1933.

1934

  • [Dove exhibition], An American Place, New York, 1934.

1939

  • Arthur G. Dove: Exhibition of Oils and Temperas, An American Place, New York, 1939, no. 20 (dated 1925).

1947

  • Alfred Stieglitz Exhibition: His Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1947.

1974

  • Arthur Dove, San Francisco Museum of Art and five other venues, 1974-1976, unnumbered catalogue, repro. (probably shown only in San Francisco).

1997

  • Arthur Dove: A Retrospective Exhibition, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1997-1998, unnumbered catalogue, pl. 27.

2001

  • Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2001, no. 108, repro.

2004

  • Alfred Stieglitz and His Circle: 1905-1930, Musée d'Orsay, Paris; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2004-2005, no. 123, repro.

2005

  • Dada, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2005-2006, not in cat. (shown only in Paris).

  • Dada, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 2005 - 2006, unnumbered catalogue.

2009

  • Dove/O'Keeffe: Circles of Influence, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, 2009, pl. 34.

Bibliography

1944

  • Mullett, Suzanne M. "Arthur G. Dove (1880-1946): A Study in Contemporary Art." M.A. thesis, American University, Washington, D.C., 1944: 52.

1947

  • Phillips, Duncan. "Arthur G. Dove, 1880-1946." Magazine of Art 40, no. 5 (May 1947): 195.

1950

  • Pollitzer, Anita. "'That's Georgia'." Saturday Review of Literature (4 November 1950): 43.

1967

  • Arthur Dove: The Years of Collage. Exh. cat. University of Maryland Art Gallery: 17, pl. 8, no. 4.

  • Johnson, Dorothy Rylander. Arthur Dove: The Years of Collage. M.A. thesis, University of Maryland, College Park, 1967: 35-36, repro 31.

1984

  • Morgan, Ann Lee. Arthur Dove: Life and Work, With a Catalogue Raisonné, Newark, London, and Toronto, 1984: 132-133, no. 24.6, repro.

1988

  • Morgan, Ann Lee, ed. Dear Stieglitz, Dear Dove. Newark, London, and Toronto, 1988: 114.

2004

  • Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter. Full Bloom: The Art and Life of Georgia O'Keeffe. New York and London: 204, 254.

Wikidata ID

Q63861639

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